Literary Twitterati: from Bronte google doodles to the Hardy Boys

Google helps to celebrate Charlotte's 198th birthday with this great Google doodle #JaneEyre #Happy198th pic.twitter.com/5xhx0KyLaL

Just heard first of Martin Sixsmith's progs on history of psychology/psychoanalysis. 30secs of female voices in 15mins (one quoting a man)!

Staff picks pic.twitter.com/T4G2ubvx8x

Join us in reading Dante's "Inferno"; we will post recaps every Monday. Last week's recap of Canto 25: http://t.co/77GjNDHmai

Very sorry to hear: Alistair MacLeod, acclaimed Canadian writer, dead, 77: CBC News http://t.co/yRGmYBtLW0 Lovely writer, wonderful person.

This week I inadvertently came up with the perfect description of how I publish: A book escapes from the house and someone sends me a cheque

"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents." RIP #GabrielGarciaMarquez

featuring Eimear McBride, James Joyce, Peter Murphy, Lola Ridge, Benjamin Myers, the devil, poems, prose & lots more http://t.co/5YjB2KxNr8

PEN World Voices Festival has named Colm Tóibín chairman beginning next year; he succeeds Salman Rushdie.

Eminent Poet to me recently: So what was your formative reading? Me: The Hardy Boys Poet: Eh? Ah! Thomas Hardy! Me: No. Frank and Joe Hardy

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